4 digital tools useful for journalists * Anna Bruno

4 digital tools useful for journalists

Try these new tools useful for journalists for production, creation and visual and audio narration.

Tools for journalists

The design platformCanvaHe recently adopted generative artificial intelligence by allowing users to create images from the text. They are not always perfect, moreover the square format seems to be the only format available right now. However you can play with different styles and embellish your articles or your social media with some original images.

Canva

social media. You can try the new toolMagic DesignBased on artificial intelligence (account pro) that transforms text and images into personalized models such as social cards. This is a really useful tool that saves time for any social campaign.

What even more interesting for journalists, Canva is also launching some visual narrative tools from the data viewing platformFlourish, acquired two years ago. From September you can create interactive graphics for viewing data such as tree maps and graphic graphic designers. You just have to select a canva model and enter your data set by loading a spreadsheet, connecting to a live source or integrating with the API.

Tinywow

It is an intelligent online tool to modify and convert PDF and solve other problems such as removing the background from the images, generating text and images with a tool based on artificial intelligence or transforming a video into gif. Although it is not specifically aimed at journalists, having an online tool for PDF, images, videos and various files under the same roof can save you a lot of time and effort. This tool is completely free and says that both the elaborate files and the unrealized ones are deleted after an hour.

Instrier

It is a new instrument without code that wants to make the production of high quality visual journalism easier for the editorial offices that do not have internal developers. You can create text, images, videos, maps, 3D elements or incorporate tables and graphics. The beautiful thing is that it can be used for individual stories so that the editorial offices should not change their existing systems. The instrument is young but has already been adopted by editorial offices such as the Swiss state averageRSI.chwho produced a piece for the anniversary of one year of the Vication of Ukraine by Russia.

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Motionbox

This is a sort of Swiss knife for the editing of images, audio and video.MotionboxIt offers instruments as a music viewer, video cutout, change of speed gif, creator of meme video and creator of presentations. You can also transform podcast into video, add text and subtitles to the videos and wisdom your job. There is a limited free plan to try the tool and, if you like, you can register for a paid version at a fairly reasonable price.



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